Plans for Nestboxes

[DEEJAY7950]

Hi, just the mock up drawings for the interior for a loft thats 8x8 for now, the thumb nails you can click on them to bring them to normal size so you can see them better, however when i am able to build i will take pictures as i go along and post them here! Thank you for the reply, I'll remember to make future pictures full size next time!

[DEEJAY7950]

putting the thumbnails to full size!

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[DEEJAY7950]

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[DEEJAY7950]

This is my choice for the final design of the interior of the loft! as you can see it has both top and bottom storage for feed cans,carriers,small vacuum,extra nest bowls, lice powder, bands, tools ,and other misc items you want handy! Originally i had the whole top as storage but i thought i could make better use of two of the storages boxes by turning them into "pairing up" breeding cages!

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[DEEJAY7950]

Hey Hooked just noticed your from buffalo, what a small world, my wife and i grew up in buffalo as kids, then moved to the suburbs and finally moved to sunny florida! Nice to hear from home town people!

[Hooked]

hay thats cool what part of this good city are you from i am from the southside seneca st area glad to meet ya how the weather down there we been in the 80s all week not bad for tis time of year

[DEEJAY7950]

Hi Hooked, originally lived in the fruit belt section of buffalo, that's the area where all the streets are named well like it says, lemon, orange, cherry,grape and such, was a nice area as a kid, but moved out to cheektowaga as a teenager, then really out to the country "darien center" some time later! The weather here right now is "HOT" but is starting to cool down, we still have two more months before we are out of hurricane season, I was up in buffalo about a month ago and couldn't believe just how warm the weather was, it was amazing!I had to make a pit stop at the anchor bar in buffalo for chicken wings lol! Nice hearing from you Hooked, tell me about your birds and club if any!

[learning]

Nice to hear from some fellow western New Yorkers! I grew up as a kid in a little town named Schoharie, N.Y. (near Albany), but then moved out to Canandaigua (south of Rochester) as a teen. Beautiful area up there. My mom still lives in the area and I look forward to returning home every time I visit. I have been in Atlanta since 1984 but a part of me will always reside in western New York.

Dan

[DEEJAY7950]

Hi Dan, nice of you to chime in, and welcome, tell me about your loft and birds, I have not begun to build as yet but i have made plans as you can see! Do you have any pictures you can share? It's been a long time since i had pigeons or should i say "racing homers" can't wait to start up again! One of the main reasons I'm getting back into it, is to show my grandsons and granddaughters the pure joy of raising these magnificent birds, once it gets in your blood you can't get rid of it lol! I know the road will be hard to follow since i don't know anyone here in central florida that is a "flyer" but that doesn't deter me for i know the whole process is a long term thing---first the loft to build, then the STOCK to get, then the raising of squeakers, then the training, not to mention getting into a club! Sorry I'm Diabetic and tend to ramble when my sugar gets out of control lol so forgive me please, another reason i'm getting back into the sport is the electronic clocking of the birds, so much better for training and racing imho! No more will one have to choose between family events and racing since you don't have to be there when they clock-in, although i prefer to be there all the time, there are times when family must come first! Dan can you show me some pictures of your loft and birds? Maybe you can sort of re-school me in todays sport! One of the things i'm afraid of is the high cost of quality stock birds, being on a fixed pension and all the medications i take, it can be a challenge to find the extra cash for quality birds! I almost had everything set earlier this year when BAM life gave me a medical set back but i'm working though it and one reason i believe is the excitement of getting back into the sport! Sorry for being so long winded but this gives me something to live for and i can't wait, even if i can only just put ideas on graph paper for now!
Yours in the sport
DEEJAY

[learning]

Hi DeeJay,

If you read the thread entitled "Loft Advice" it chronicles the last two years in the process of me getting back into pigeons after a thirty year hiatus. There are a lot of pictures included in that thread that are no longer uploaded. The latter pictures should still be up however. If you have any questions I will be more than happy to help in any way I can.

As far as my birds go...well...I don't have any yet. It has taken the last two years to get my loft built. I am finally getting very close to accepting shippment of my breeding stock from up north. I can't tell you how excited both my wife and I are about finally getting birds into what has become somewhat of a white elephant over the last two years. I think once our birds are in and we are finally raising babies for next year's young bird team things will be well worth all the effort we have put in.

Good luck and let me know if I can help in any way.

Dan

[Hooked]

Good afternoon DeeJay no i dont belong to a club just yet was going to join one when i had enough birds to race i just started back into the sport last year and was just getting birds i did get some from the gulf coast race club (they are located down there in Florida) through thier adoption program and i did have 3 pairs to start from them this was my first year a breeding and had only about a total of 25 birds, then disaster struck and someone broke into my loft and killed 10 birds and stole the rest plus my clock. Boy i hope we can catch them and let justice be served.so as soon as i can get things going again i will be sure to send ya some pictures. By that time i should have a nice security system for my loft a nice big and hungry German Shepherd lol this was very heart wrenching for me and i alomst gave up.But my wife told me that she didnt marry a quiter so back to the drawing board to have a bigger and better flock.

[DEEJAY7950]

Nice hearing from you both "Learning & Hooked" glad to hear the sport is not dying out and people like you will not let it, just hope we can pass it all down the line to the youngsters! Sure hope those that did the awful deed get caught and punished, sounds like kids with the wrong up bringing, maybe if they were envolved at an early age with pigeons maybe, just maybe, they would know how precious these birds are to us in the sport! I feel so bad for you Hooked, thank God you have a good wife for support, she'll never let you quit, now that is something to be proud of, good for her, oh and you lol. Looks like we all have a lot to accomplish in the coming months ahead, wishing you both all the best!

DEEJAY!

[DEEJAY7950]

just finished making some pairing up boxes and placed some birds there!

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[DEEJAY7950]

Better view of the pairing up cages! when i'm ready to put the birds together I just remove the sliding partition between the male and female I plan on breeding!

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[DEEJAY7950]

another picture

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